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Lopez Jr. is less interested in evaluating the accuracy of such claims than in exploring how and why these two seemingly disparate modes of understanding the inner and outer universe have been so persistently linked. Lopez opens with an account of the rise and fall of Mount Meru, the great peak that stands at the centre of the flat earth of Buddhist cosmography—and which was interpreted anew once it proved incompatible with modern geography.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFrom there, he analyses the way in which Buddhist concepts of spiritual nobility were enlisted to support the notorious science of race in the nineteenth century. 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